The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, September 17, 1913, Image 10

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SJim Vaughn, the well-known comeback, and George Pierce, who is justarriving. Cheney, Humphries andStack are his right-handed reliances.And Manager John believes they areall star pitchers under certain conditions. -.He is certain to gjye-one of his lefthanders a job of work in the civilwar, but there is no doubt as to howsaid southpaw will be received by theSouth Siders. Against a 'left-handerCallahan will have only two wrongside batsmen Lord and Chappellin the game. This is usually considered a big handicap for the off-sideheavers.Vaughn has been very effectiveagainst St Louis and Brooklyn, bothteams being well stocked with lefthanded batters. He was trimmed bythe Giants. Pew of McGraws hirelings swing from the first-base sideof the plate.And there's the dope, take it forwhat it is worth. Cheney and Humphries should be strong against theCallahans. Stack should give a goodaccount of himself. But how will theleft-handers fate?, Find an easierquestion. . n w 'Dav, the demon dopist, must havebecome lost in one of his private daydreams. He wises us to the 'fact .thatManager Jakq Stallings.ls here todaywith his Boston Red Sox.Maybe George wants to be calledjane, isut a- guy namea jaue witn aname similar to Stallings got thehook in Boston not long ago.Manager Callahan of the WhiteSox today thinks Connie Mack of theAthletics is one of the finest fellowsconnected with baseball. All on account of Joe Benz.Several weeks ago it was reportedthat waivers had been asked on Benz.The truth of the report could not beascertained, but. there must- havebeen something to it, as Mack gaveout the information that he wouldrefuse to waive on the butcher boyand would like to have him on histeam. But. Benz remained with theSox. If Mack had not come to batBenz might have been relegated tothe American Association.If this had happened a good pitcher would have been lost to the Sox.Since the waiver rumor Benz hasbeen pitching almost on a par withRussell, Cicotte and Scott, which ispraise enough for any man. He hasthe hard luck common to any pitcher working for a team whose leadingbatter is hovering around the .270mark, to which must be added thehandicap of slow baserunning.J3enz should have won yesterday.He undoubtedly would have if he hadbeen hooked against any other pitcher but Walter Johnson. For six andtwo-thirds innings he held Washing- .ton hitless. In that time his mateshad provided him with one run as aworking margin. And they failed toswell the total in the entire nineframes.Joe could not keep up his terrificpace and Washington pushed homea pair of runs, the last in the ninthinning. This is the second time thisyear Benz has battled Johnson, andon each occasion he has forced theNational smoke artist to go- the limit.The first battle was on the SouthSide. Washington only got one run,but Johnson blanked the Sox.Johnson right now is practicallyunbeatable if his team gives him arun. He is at the top of his game,showing the best brand of puzzlework exhibited since he broke intothe big 'show. Six hits were madeoff him yesterday and 11 Sox fanned.Not a pass was issued by Big Walter.Callahan is not going to win a pennant this year. He will have a herculean task breaking back into thefirst division aid ousting the BostonRed Sox.But he has the satisfaction of having broken even on the games of theyear with both Washington and the 'Athletics. The Sox took 11 battlesfrom each team and dropped thesame number. If they had played thesame excellent game against the- V. S SJU iaaaMaafiz2ttO&setimamimmmem&mmmii